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The X Factor will not be attempting to score a Christmas chart topper this year, with the winner's single set for release weeks ahead of the festive chart countdown.
The single is to be released hours after the winner is announced on the final, which will be on 9 December. According to BBC Newsbeat, this means that the single will be two weeks early for the Christmas No 1 - effectively removing it from the race.
In previous years The X Factor chooses to have the final just one week before the Christmas singles chart, which means that it has the maximum potential to hit that number one spot.
The X Factor has previously had the Christmas No 1 four years in a row, from 2005 to 2008.
However, in 2009 there was a campaign started to keep X Factor from the Christmas No 1, and Rage Against The Machine beat 2009 winner Joe McElderry with 'Killing in the Name'.
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While Matt Cardle managed to win with his cover of Biffy Clyro's 'Many of Horror' - renamed 'When We Collide' - Little Mix lost out the year after to Gareth Malone's Military Wives.
The managing director of the official charts company, Martin Talbot, told BBC Newsbeat, "Last year, it meant that Little Mix's debut single 'Cannonball' had its strongest week before the battle for festive Number one was underway - letting in the Military Wives with 'Wherever You Are'.
"But with rumours that the X Factor finalists' single is also due to be a charity single, that could help it sustain through a second week and right into Christmas - if they get the song and the charitable cause right."
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